Acquired Stardust
taylor price
cherry valley forever
Kiana Khansmith
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
No title available
Not today Justin
Kaledo Art
Claire Keane
AnasAbdin
No title available
shark vs the universe
No title available
izzy's playlists!
styofa doing anything
@theartofmadeline
YOU ARE THE REASON
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Love Begins
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Netherlands
seen from Italy
seen from Canada
seen from South Africa
seen from Malaysia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Spain
seen from Australia
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from Sri Lanka
seen from Japan
seen from Slovenia
seen from United States
seen from Romania
seen from Australia
@mareplumbeo
— about the account:
interested in linguistics and literature and willing to learn more <3
Italian, English, German, French & possibly others
Check out my other blogs!
— my tags:
linguistics
lang stuff | grammar | idioms
lit stuff | quotes | mythology
links
I follow and like from @writtenmemxries
- James Baldwin talking about Love
[text id: The role of the lover is exactly the same as the role of the artist. If I love you, I must make you aware of the things you do not see. end id]
i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point
you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling
these exchanges and this fiddling about for the collective to appreciate in passing is, to me, true artistic spirit. I don't know what the past was truly like to live, but in my heart i know that humans have always been... like this
Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"
remaking since things have slowed down!
i am job searching with no unemployment checks, i'm in danger of having utilities shut off so please help with anything you can! share widely!
but do NOT tag this post!!!
aka do not tag this post.
it’s green/cshp
it’s coffee/k0fi
it’s dark blue/yellow/p@ypal
it’s blue/v3nm0
buy crystals & readings from me !!
share pls! i have $22 to my name and nothing paid off!
— Ocean Vuong, Nothing
[text ID: I used to cry in a genre no one read.]
Chekhov wrote it before Camus
- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
sensitive speaker of English could consider removing the phrase “rule of thumb” from their vocabulary. The term has its roots in domestic v
...there is no evidence that the expression “rule of thumb” has its roots in spousal abuse. In fact, this claim has been consistently debunked by scholars for decades. It’s a folk etymology, and an incredibly persistent one at that, that arises with whack-a-mole insistence as fast as linguists and historians can challenge it.
“Rule of thumb” isn’t the only English idiom haunted by folk linguistic history. Nor is it the only case in which that false history is redolent of past (and present) atrocities: domestic violence, slavery, brutal class inequality. Around the same time the Stanford list came out, a viral tweet thread claimed the phrase "knocked up" has roots in slavery. Periodically, somebody—a Florida politician, for instance—insists that the word “picnic” originated with lynchings in the Jim Crow South (the Brandeis list notes somewhat less apocryphally that the term is associated with lynchings and suggests “outdoor eating” instead). Meanwhile, in the U.K., it’s often claimed that “chav,” an insult for young working-class people, isn’t merely offensive, but that it is also an acronym for “Council House and Violent,” with rudeness in its very roots. Similarly, “pussy” hasn’t just become a slight over time—its source is a truncation of “pusillanimous,” meaning “cowardly.” None of these sources are real. They’re folk etymologies—rumors, essentially—some relatively new and some perennial. The relationship between “knocked up” and slavery has been disproven, and seemed to stem from a well-meaning misconstrual of (nevertheless severely depressing) primary sources, in particular a joke made by Davy Crockett, of all people. The joke was wildly racist, but it’s not where “knocked up” comes from. “Chav” is likely borrowed from a Romani word meaning “child,” and the “Council House and Violence” source has been identified as a “backronym” rather than a true acronym. Even if “pussy” is now lobbed as an emasculating barb, nobody uses the word “pusillanimous” except to pretend that it’s the source material for “pussy.”
Wordy by aavfvl
This is how I feel whenever I talk to people btw. if you even care.
— Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"
Duolingo Alternatives by Language
Disclaimer: I haven't used or tested all of them. All resources have different strengths, e.g. Drops being designed for vocabulary. They often aren't full alternatives for Duolingo or formal classes. I just wanted to compile resources for all languages on Duolingo to make the switch easier, especially for the less popular languages.
Feel free to also check out my collection of free textbooks
If you want a more detailed resource list for any of these languages (or perhaps one not listed here) you can send me an ask and I can see what I can do.
{Quotes :Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami / Sarah Kay}
